شاشرمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Causative of شاشمق (şaşmak), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *siāĺ- (“to be astonished, to slander”), equivalent to شاش (şaş) +‎ ـر (-ır).

Verb

شاشرمق • (şaşırmak)

(transitive) to confuse
(intransitive) to become bewildered
(intransitive) to lose one's mind

Derived terms

آیاق شاشرمق (ayak şaşırmak)
پوصوله‌یی شاشرمق (pusulayı şaşırmak)
شاشرتمق (şaşırtmak)
یولی شاشرمق (yolı şaşırmak)

Related terms

شاشمق (şaşmak)

Descendants

Turkish: şaşırmak
→ Armenian: շաշըրմիշ (šašərmiš)

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاشرمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1108
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاشرمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 714

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